// Conceptual Positions
Cultural Anthropological Position
6 topics
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What Do You Feel in an Era When Cafes Are Disappearing?
Examines the uniquely Japanese 'cafe culture' in comparison with Western cafe culture, viewing the process of disappearance as cultural transformation. The loss of Japanese customs like 'morning sets' and 'regular customer culture' thins out daily rituals and seasonal sensibilities.
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The Value of Time Spent Not Thinking About Anything
Japanese cultural traditions of 'wabi-sabi' and 'toji' create the soil that affirms time of non-action. Unlike Western 'productive rest,' the sensibility that values simply being is deeply rooted.
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About How the Quiet of Onsen Towns Deepens at Night
Interprets the quiet of onsen towns at night in connection with Japan's unique 'toji' (hot spring cure) culture and the sanctity of night. Sees nighttime silence as functioning as a time of purification that washes away the impurities of daily life.
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Does Onsen Memory Remain in the Body?
The tradition of 'toji' (hot spring cure) in Japanese culture has positioned onsen as a place to 'purify the body and update memory.' Memory remaining in the body is not only individual but also the inheritance of cultural memory.
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What is the difference between entering an onsen alone and with someone?
In Japanese society, onsen functions as social lubricant enabling cross-hierarchical exchange. Entering alone reflects modern individualism; entering together reflects traditional communal sensibility.
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Why Is a Cafe on a Rainy Day Special?
Examines Japanese cafe culture and how people spend rainy days in connection with seasonal sensibilities and 'wabi-sabi.' It views the sensibility of enjoying rain as 'emotion' fused with the cafe, a space of Western origin, as a unique cultural phenomenon.